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Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America Crawford Gribben (Professor of History, Professor of History, Queen's University Belfast)

Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America By Crawford Gribben (Professor of History, Professor of History, Queen's University Belfast)

Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America by Crawford Gribben (Professor of History, Professor of History, Queen's University Belfast)


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Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society they anticipate. This book examines the origins, evolution, and cultural reach of the migration and considers what it might tell us about the future of American evangelicalism.

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Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest by Crawford Gribben (Professor of History, Professor of History, Queen's University Belfast)

Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society that they anticipate. These believers have often given up on the politics of the Christian Right, adopting strategies of hibernation while developing the communities and institutions from which a new America might one day emerge. Their activity coincides with the promotion by prominent survivalist authors of a program of migration to the American Redoubt, a region encompassing Idaho, Montana, parts of eastern Washington and Oregon, and Wyoming, as a haven in which to endure hostile social change or natural disaster and in which to build a new social order. These migration movements have independent origins, but they overlap in their influences and aspirations, working in tandem to offer a vision of the present in which Christian values must be defended as American society is rebuilt according to biblical law. This book examines the origins, evolution, and cultural reach of this little-noted migration and considers what it might tell us about the future of American evangelicalism. Drawing on Calvinist theology, the social theory of Christian Reconstruction, and libertarian politics, these believers are projecting significant soft power. Their books are promoted by leading mainstream publishers and listed as New York Times bestsellers. Their strategy is gaining momentum, making an impact in local political and economic life, while being repackaged for a wider audience in publications by a broader coalition of conservative commentators and in American mass culture. This survivalist evangelical subculture recognizes that they have lost the culture war - but another kind of conflict is beginning.

Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America Reviews

Whether familiar or unacquainted with those involved in Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest, readers will be equipped and prepared to think carefully about the movement and the relationship between faith, politics, and culture. * Aaron Lumpkin, SOUTHEASTERN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW *
an important book * William Schultz, Church History *
For Lutherans, the value of this book can be found in the question of how best to approach secularism. * Mark Mattes, Grand View University, Lutheran Quarterly *
A fine addition to an expanding list of historically grounded monographs on Christian Reconstruction. * Brian J. Auten, Ad Fontes *
Gribben paints a rich and detailed portrait... * Ryan David Shelton, New Books Network *
Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America provides an insightful exploration of the larger social and regional contexts inhabited by Rushdoony's offspring. * Gillis J. Harp, Grove City College, Christianity Today *

About Crawford Gribben (Professor of History, Professor of History, Queen's University Belfast)

Crawford Gribben is Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast, and is the author of a number of books on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, including God's Irishmen: Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland , Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America, Evangelical Millennialism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-2000, and John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences of Defeat.

Table of Contents

Preface Map Introduction Chapter 1: Migration Chapter 2: Eschatology Chapter 3: Government Chapter 4: Education Chapter 5: Media Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index

Additional information

CIN0199370222VG
9780199370221
0199370222
Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest by Crawford Gribben (Professor of History, Professor of History, Queen's University Belfast)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
2021-08-10
224
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